Help Hunter come home

Great story about the late Hunter S. Thompson's efforts to get a job on a newspaper he admired -- it was the Vancouver Sun run by another true maverick at the time, Jack Scott.

The year is 1958; Hunter wrote his letter of application in "a frenzy of drink." Read all about it on the above link.

Prost.

Comments

Tell The Truth [Member] said:

"I would rather be on the dole than work for a paper I was ashamed of."

Hunter had sober moments, didn't he?

Priceless.

2010-10-03 20:14:36

ruthholl [Member] said:

Indeed he did. I remember when he started writing about politics for Rolling Stone, covering Nixon, all that. For the first time, we had someone who really told it like it was; he was the one guy you never had to come up to and ask, "what was it really like?"God rest his sated soul.

2010-10-04 07:20:33

Tom Greenacres [unverified] said:

I liked his work, and his earlier political reportage/commentary was refreshing and exciting. But if he ingested anywhere near what he claimed, he'd been under the ground long before he ate his gun.